Todd Mackedanz

FI provides investment management services for clients within the categories of equity, fixed income, and blended accounts. All accounts have the goal of maximizing returns relative to risk compared to benchmarks. The firm’s Investment Policy Committee (IPC) monitors global economic, and market conditions and makes strategic investment decisions for client portfolios. Their approach is based on active, flexible portfolio management. FI employs a top-down investing approach and uses a flexible investment strategy.

HighMark combines fundamental and quantitative analyses to build diversified equity portfolios that aim to outperform respective benchmarks. The firm provides a range of style-specific strategies using both internal and external managers. Their approach is a disciplined, consistent process to actively manage portfolios including equity, fixed income, liquidity management and multi-asset strategies. HighMark’s equity strategies seek to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns over an investment cycle by outperforming their benchmark index in absolute returns while assuming less risk. The firm’s fixed income investment professionals utilize both a top down and bottom up investment process to build diversified fixed income portfolios that seek to capture investment opportunities by actively managing risk through the various stages of the business and economic cycle.

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